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U.S. House · Updated Oct 9

Alabama's 5th District

Dale Whitney Strong win chance

>99%

Typical margin: Strong by 18

Republican

Andrew Rankin Guyton Sneed 1%Dale Whitney Strong 99%

Who's running

Dale Whitney StrongRepublican · Incumbent
Andrew Rankin Guyton SneedDemocrat

The numbers behind it

Cook Political ReportAs of Sep 23, 2026Solid R
Money raisedFEC, through Jun 30, 2026Strong $1.5MSneed $647K
Campaign money

Dale Whitney Strong

Raised $1.5M · $1.4M cash on hand · through Jun 30, 2026 · FEC filing ↗

Andrew Rankin Guyton Sneed

Raised $647K · $170K cash on hand · through Jun 30, 2026 · FEC filing ↗

Our model counts the money gap as worth 0.4 points to Dale Whitney Strong. Even a 10× gap is worth at most 1.5.

Other filers in this race raised $38K in total.

Candidates' own committees only, from fec.gov. Third-quarter reports are due Oct 15.

How the numbers moved
  1. Sep 23Cook Political Report: Solid RCook Political Report
  2. Jun 30Andrew Rankin Guyton Sneed had raised $647KFEC filing
  3. Jun 30Dale Whitney Strong had raised $1.5MFEC filing
How we got this number

We blend the polling average (when there is one) with the race's fundamentals: past results, incumbency, the national mood and the money. Then we play the election out 40,000 times, with polling misses that move every race together, and count how often each side wins.

90% of the model's 40,000 simulated elections land between R+30.4 and R+5.9.

No public polls yet, so this forecast rests on the fundamentals alone, with a wider range.

Our method ›